Every week, another

Angry entitled white men
with fancy guns that can fire
faster than thought kill

and kill and plan to kill more
as they flee their massacres.
Children make good prey.

They can’t fire back or run
fast enough. Assault weapons
don’t leave TV’s tidy corpses.

They rip bodies apart, tear
organs to chopped meat,
a bloody mess to identify.

What pleasure does killing give?
Does ending the lives of others
make yours suddenly worthwhile?